QuickStart Guide
Product Number: QG0003-13 Revision: 3.2; Date: 02 Dec 14
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CR Series Compact Routers
and Accessories
Product Summary
You will have received one or more routers, control panels,
remote panel modules, power supplies, and a CD that
includes documentation and software. See Figure 1.
The CR Series Compact Router family includes 1RU and 2RU
routers, control panels, and remote panel modules.
The product family includes HD, SD, “3Gig,” and analog
video routers. It includes AES and analog audio routers and
machine control routers (a.k.a. port routers).
The 1RU control panels and routers include several sizes:
16×16, 16×4, 16×2, 8×8, and 32×1. The 2RU control panels
and routers include 2 format: 32×32, and 32×4. The 2RU con-
trol panels and routers also include the new 64×64 routers
and control panel.
The product family includes “clean and quiet” (CQX) routers.
These 1RU HD, SD, and 3Gig routers provide smooth transi-
tions in video and audio with selectable transition types and
rates. A CQX control panel corresponds to the CQX routers
and provides transition controls in addition to source and
destination selection buttons.
The product names indicates their size and type. For example,
CR3204-AES indicates a Compact Router having 32 AES
inputs and 4 AES outputs.
Similarly, a CP1602 is a
C
ontrol
P
anel that lets you switch 16
sources to 2 destinations.
“RP” means Remote Panel module.
A CR16-PR is a 16-port Port Router (machine control router).
See
Product Set
, on page 9, for a complete list.
The 16×16 routers can switch any of 16 inputs to any of 16
outputs. The 8×8 routers can switch any of 8 inputs to any of
8 outputs. The 32×32 routers can switch any of 32 inputs to
any of 32 outputs. The 16×4 router switches 16 inputs to 4
outputs. The 32×4 routers switch 32 inputs to 4 outputs. All
the router matrices are fully non-blocking.
The 64×64 routers can switch any of 64 inputs to any of 64
outputs. The 64×64 routers include a 3Gig router and an AES
router. A CP6464 panel or a specially configured CP3232 can
be used to control the signals of the 64×64 routers.
The CQX routers can switch 16 inputs to either of 2 “clean
and quiet” outputs or to 6 normal outputs. In addition, the
CQX routers have 2 bypass inputs that can provide video to
the 2 clean and quiet outputs if power fails or is disconnected
from the router.
The machine control routers are bidirectional, point-to-point
routers, transmitting serial data under RS-422, up to 1 Mb/s.
All other compact routers are unidirectional, X/Y routers.
A CR Series control panel can be mounted on the front of a
router or a remote panel module and provides direct visual
and tactile control of the router. However, any of the routers
can also operate without a control panel under control of an
automation system.
The CR Series routers can be connected on an Ethernet net-
work or used with the NV9000 Router Control System.
A CR Series “remote panel module” is a device upon which a
control panel can mount. That panel is then called a “remote
panel” because it can be used at a distance from the routers.
The remote panel module also relays commands to a network
of routers and receives the status of the routers.
A network also allows “local” or “captive” control panels.
Captive control panels are those that mount on a router.
The CR Series also includes configuration software that
allows you to make the most of your compact router system,
and button legend templates in several formats.
Router(s)
1RU
Figure 1. Package Contents
Control Panel(s)
1RU
Power suppl(ies)
1 power cord retention strap
for each power supply
Quick-Start Guide
(this document)
1 software and
documentation
disk
2RU
2RU
1
ON
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
DIP
Remote Panel
Module(s) 1RU
1
ON
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
DIP
2RU
Ethernet
cable
1
1 Ethernet cable for CR6400 routers only.
